Conference pamsrc::objectbroker

BEA Receives Federal Approval to Acquire ObjectBroker and DECmessageQ Product
			      Lines From DIGITAL

		PR Newswire, Tuesday, March 25, 1997 at 08:20

	  72 DIGITAL Employees and Contractors to Transition to BEA

    SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- BEA Systems, Inc., a leading
provider of distributed Enterprise Middleware Solutions(TM), today announced
it has received approval from the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S.
Assistant Attorney General to proceed with the acquisition of the Digital
Equipment Corporation (NYSE:DEC) ObjectBroker and DECmessageQ product lines.
    BEA's acquisition of these and other related products was pending approval
from the Federal Trade Commission in accordance with the Hart-Scott Rodino
Act, which requires a 30-day waiting period to review the proposed
acquisition.  In addition, BEA also announced that 72 of the 75 DIGITAL
employees and contractors have accepted employment offers from BEA. The
acquired products complement BEA TUXEDO(R), the company's market-leading
transactional middleware product, making BEA the only full-service,
cross-platform provider of open middleware.
    Under the terms of the agreement, BEA is obtaining exclusive worldwide
rights and all associated patents, trademarks, and intellectual property for
three DIGITAL products:  ObjectBroker, a production-quality CORBA-compliant
Object Request Broker (ORB); DECmessageQ, one of the industry's fastest
message-oriented middleware (MOM) products; and ObjectBroker Desktop
Connection, which connects ActiveX clients to ObjectBroker.  In addition, BEA
is receiving an unrestricted worldwide source license for DIGITAL's SAP R/3
Wrapper.
    Leading industry analyst firms believe that the combination of transaction
monitors, message queuing, and object technology is the next evolution of
middleware, especially important for applications using the Internet.  With
this acquisition, BEA's enterprise middleware suite is positioned to be at the
forefront of this next-generation middleware.

SOURCE  BEA Systems Inc.
    -0-                             03/25/97
    /CONTACT:  Birdie Fenzel of BEA Systems, Inc., 408-542-4081, or
[email protected]; or Mary Cobb of Blanc & Otus, 415-512-0500, or
[email protected], for BEA Systems, Inc./

Well, I certainly wish you guys luck.

As for me, it means a lot to have the engineers at
the other end of a Notes conference and I'll be sorry
to see you go.

John D.

    re: Note 1391.2 by LEMAN::DONALDSON
    
    We could always use the comp.object.corba newsgroup to pick up the 
    function the OBB notesfiles provided. It (comp.object.corba) has too 
    much Orbix-related traffic anyways, and could use some balance.
    
    Ken....

> We could always use the comp.object.corba newsgroup to pick up the 
> function the OBB notesfiles provided. It (comp.object.corba) has too 
> much Orbix-related traffic anyways, and could use some balance.

	I believe there would be certain questions and/or answers that
	would not be postable to a world wide audience.

	Does anyone know how the ORACLE folks setup their network
	so that you can still get to their notesfiles even after
	they left the Easynet?  Ie. you get to all their notesfiles
	using PMR through a node called ORAREP::.  For example,
	orarep::nomahs::rdb_wish is the notesfile spec for one of
	their notesfiles.  On their side they access it directly as
	nomahs::rdb_wish.  So in theory the same thing could be setup
	for the ObjectBroker notesfiles on the SEND cluster ....

>Subject: 	Flash - HP announcement regarding BEA middleware
>
>PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY.  
>
>This "flash" will also be disseminated world-wide via Readers Choice.
>
>
>FROM: 	Paulette Rio 		Lin Schimel		Peter Powell
>	ObjectBroker Mrktng	DECmessageQ Mrktng	TUXEDO Mrktng
>	138844		
>	@ZKO			@ZKO			@ZKO
>	DTN 381-1650		DTN 381-1659		DTN 381-1615
>	FAX 381-2550    	same			same
>	
>
>SUBJ: Response to HP Announcement: HP to Resell BEA Middleware Suite
>      
>Tuesday, April 1, 1997
>
>Hewlett Packard will announce today an agreement which allows HP to support
>the
>BEA middleware suite - TUXEDO, ObjectBroker and DECmessageQ.  We want to
>alert
>our world-wide field of this news and explain the positive effect this has on
>Digital's partnership with BEA Systems and our OpenOTM software strategy.
>
>Here are the facts as we understand them at this time:
>
>1. HP will be providing TUXEDO, DECmessageQ and ObjectBroker as part of its
>company's Systems Integration business - not as discrete products.  This will
>be purely a service business for HP.
>
>2. HP will eventually stop selling Encina and CICS in favor of TUXEDO, but
>does
>not plan to discontinue selling ORBplus, their own CORBA-compliant ORB.
> 
>What does this mean to Digital?
>
>We see this as a very positive step forward for OpenOTM and our strategic
>partnership with BEA Systems to promote and sell these products widely and to
>deliver on the OpenOTM strategy for enterprise and Internet application
>opportunities.
>
>Here are a few messages that clarify this announcement.
>
>1. With the BEA/Digital agreement, both companies set out to ensure that the
>combination of ObjectBroker, DECmessageQ, and TUXEDO would be widely accepted
>as a de facto standards for OpenOTM, and HP is in fact endorsing this 
>direction. 
>
>2. Joint selling opportunities are beginning to multiply between BEA and
>Digital reps in accounts where TUXEDO customers also want to now seriously
>consider DECmessageQ and/or ObjectBroker as a complementary technology to
>TUXEDO.  For Q4 alone, we have over 24 named opportunities being pursued by a
>Digital and BEA sales team, with more to come.
>
>3. HP must be feeling exposure in their TUXEDO accounts with their
>end-of-life
>32-bit UNIX systems as compared with Digital UNIX 64-bit.  
>
>4. Digital Services has vast expertise in these products and is best prepared
>to deliver these products to customers on all brands of UNIX. 
>
>5. This agreement muddies HP's ORB strategy, since ObjectBroker competes
>directly with HP's ORBplus, and is a much more mature CORBA ORB.  ORBplus has
>been on the market for less than a year, while ObjectBroker has been on the
>market since 1991.  Customers today do not really want to deal with two ORBs.
>If a customer wants the integrated BEA middleware solution, it does not leave
>much room for ORBplus in that account.
>
>If you have further questions regarding this announcement, feel free to
>contact the names listed at the top of this agreement, or the Digital product
>managers as follows:
>
>ObjectBroker - 	Dan Gilfix
>		[email protected]
>
>DECmessageQ  -	Elery Willett
>		[email protected]
>
>TUXEDO	     -  Charlie Parker
>		[email protected]

                       <<< Note 1391.5 by RECV::SLAVIN >>>
                     -< HP to Resell BEA Middleware Suite >-

Mary Ann, just to make sure. This *was* an April Fool's - right?
It's just that you posted it 2-Apr.

John D.

    For more information, see  www.beasys.com  - there are press releases,
    etc.

Mary Ann, just to make sure. This *was* an April Fool's - right?
>It's just that you posted it 2-Apr.
>
No joke. HP is reselling BEA products.

    
    It is a joke, just not an April Fool's joke (although there are fools
    behind it and it is April), and the target of the joke is all of us.
    
    Very definitely black humour.
    
    As a software company, I applaud BEA's no-nonsense approach to
    servicing the platforms that will obviously be highest on their
    development list. See, things are changing for the success of our 
    former middleware already.
    
    - John